friends to the end

when i was a kid and we were learning how to spell my teacher had a saying to help us remember how to spell the word friend. she used to say 'friend to the end ' so we would remember that it was ie not ei . of course as an adult i realize how much weight this mnemonic device held. turns out that not many friends are truly friends to the end. and thats okay. some friends are just situational friends. you're single , they're single and once they get married pouf ! they disappear. other friends are friends for awhile until you have a falling out. like perhaps one of you was always ignoring certain fallacies in each others personalities until one or the other couldnt ignore it anymore and then bye-bye friendship. or perhaps someone moves away and at first you keep in touch and then you occasionally keep in touch, and then you finally see each other again and then you realize you are just different people and really now turned out to be situational friends. other friends you just grow out of even though you may have been really close at one time. there are other friends that no matter how long you might be out of touch with them you can always pick up with them where u left off. they could be married and have loads of kids and you could still be single, but still you are true friends. friends to the end.